0 someone who organizes or is involved in a counter-revolution (= a political activity that happens as a reaction to an earlier political change):
1 involved in or relating to a counter-revolution (= a political activity that happens as a reaction to an earlier political change):
counter-revolutionary activities/literature
He was branded a counter-revolutionary and dismissed from all his posts.
Homes were raided in an effort to root out counter-revolutionaries.
Hundreds of thousands of counter-revolutionaries were massacred in the Vendée in western France in the 1790s.
His controversial statements about race and class eventually led to charges of counter-revolutionary heresy.
The bandits in question were counter-revolutionary rebels who hid in the Escambray mountains during the 1960s.
Red Guards attacked his ideas as counter-revolutionary in the 1960s.
Ultimately the pro-division faction contrived to get the government to support its position and when the ' rebel' party revolted, the federal army unleashed counter-revolutionary terror.
However, the particular stream of counter-revolutionary restoration to which they were most exposed seldom yielded death or prison sentences.
